- Lyudmila Putina
Infobox Person
name = Lyudmila Putina
other_names =
caption =Bella Kocharyan ,Laura Bush , Lyudmila Putina, andZorka Parvanova –first ladies ofArmenia , theUnited States ,Russia , andBulgaria respectively in2003 .
birth_date = birth date and age|1958|1|6
birth_place =Kaliningrad ,Soviet Union
title = Former First Lady of Russia
spouse =Vladimir Putin
predecessor =Naina Yeltsina
successor =Svetlana Medvedeva
children =
relations =Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina ( _ru. 1=Людмила Александровна Путина, "Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina", née Shkrebneva, Шкребнева; born
January 6 ,1958 ,Kaliningrad ,Soviet Union ) is the wife of formerRussia n President and current Prime MinisterVladimir Putin . In her early years she was an airline stewardess on local flights from Kaliningrad. In 1986 Putina graduated from the Branch of Spanish language andphilology of the Department of Philology ofLeningrad State University , where in 1990-1994 she in turn taught German. She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin onJuly 28 ,1983 ; they have two daughters, Maria, born1985 and Katerina (Katja) (born1986 inDresden ). The daughters attended the German School in Moscow (Deutsche Schule Moskau) until Putin's appointment as Prime Minister in1999 .In 1993 in Kaliningrad she was involved in a life-threatening car accident and was seriously injured. After this she converted to the Orthodox faith.
For a few years until 1999 she was a Moscow representative of the JSC
Telecominvest . [Rudneva, Elena et al., Germans attacked Putins.Vedomosti , #137(1418), 28.07.2005. ru icon] [ [http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=310 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - GermansSee Shady City Link ] ] [ [http://inopressa.ru/fraktuell/2005/07/26/11:06:48/telecom Inopressa: "Телекоминвест" загадывает загадки ] ] [ [http://www.anticompromat.ru/putina_l/put_lbio.html Юмрхйнлопнлюр.Пс. Осрхмю Кчдлхкю ] ]Following tradition, Putina maintains a low profile on the Russian political stage, generally avoiding the limelight except as required by protocol and restricting her public role to supportive statements about her husband.
Putina is a curator of a fund aimed to develop
Russian language and sometimes produces statements concerning Russian language andeducation . Some claim that a minororthography reform proposed in early 2000s was cancelled due to her influence.References
External links
* [http://www.anticompromat.ru/putina_l/put_lbio.html A biography of Lyudmila Putina] by V. Pribylovsky. ru icon
* [http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/L_Putina_eng.shtml Official biography]
* [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-2126640_ITM Bearing the cross of First Lady] by Tatyana Netreba 92002).
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